Heavy to very heavy rainfall has been forecast at isolated places in Almora, Champawat, Nainital, US Nagar, Pauri, Haridwar and Dehradun districts of Uttarakhand during the next 36 hours starting from Tuesday evening. Heavy rainfall measuring upto 95 mm rainfall lashed Dehradun district on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
Heavy rainfall has been reported from the mountainous parts of the state too over the past 24 hours. Many roads are reported to be blocked for traffic especially in the hills.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is one or two spell of rain/thundershower. The showers might be heavy in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 31ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday.
The Met centre director Bikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 33.9ºC Celsius and 23.3ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 21.4ºC and 15.5ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.7ºC and 16.5ºC in Tehri and 34.8ºC and 26.7 ºC in Pantnagar respectively on Tuesday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Tuesday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the state. While 95.2 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun, it was 0.6 mm in Tehri and 6.8 mm in Mukteshwar.